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The cult of web3 has the same vibe as the Pointy-Haired Boss breathlessly repeating talking points on how Watson Deep Reinforcement Machine Intelligence On The
by civilized 5y ago
The cult of web3 has the same vibe as the Pointy-Haired Boss breathlessly repeating talking points on how Watson Deep Reinforcement Machine Intelligence On The Cloud (TM) is going to revolutionize his business.
"We barely know what it is, and of course no actual rational argument has been made for why it is needed, but... everyone's talking about it! We can't be left behind!"
- koonsolo 5y agoI'm sure the people working on all those web3 projects don't "barely know what it is". So you claim that the developers of for example SushiSwap barely know what it is?
- idop 5y agoThe thing about the financial world is that it is intentionally complex and full of gibberish in order to make it inaccessible to the layperson. Cryptocurrencies are exactly the same, and are on track to become even worse.
- koonsolo 5y agoA smartphone features pretty complex hard and software. But that doesn't mean a layperson can't use it. Why do you think web3 services can't be interfaced with a good UX?
- deebosong 5y agoTo me, that's the exact parallel that comes to mind for the current hype around web3/ crypto/ etc etc. IBM's hype campaign from the early-to-mid 2010's, on Watson, Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Cloud, and whatever other buzzwords were thrown into that PR carpet bombing campaign that was everywhere. I still don't know what any of those technologies do, and whether or not they're implemented in anything I'm using. But it sure sounded important and potentially revolutionary at the time!
- civilized 5y agoI remember a large fraction of ads I saw on NYT for a couple years were like, "cognitive computing is here". Nevermind that IBM calls everything it does cognitive, even basic bitch BI tools like Cognos.